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{{Infobox film
|name = Titli
|image = Dvd titli.jpg
|caption = DVD film poster
|producer = [[Sutapa Ghosh]]<br>[[Tapan Biswas]]
|starring = [[Mithun Chakraborty]]<br>[[Aparna Sen]]<br>[[Konkona Sen Sharma]]
|director = [[Rituparno Ghosh]]
|cinematography = [[Avik Mukhopadhyay]]
|distributor = [[Cinemawalla]]
|released = {{Film date|df=yes|2002}}
|language = Bengali
}}

'''''Titli''''' ({{lit|butterfly}}) is a 2002 [[Cinema of India|Indian]] [[Cinema of West Bengal|Bengali-language film]] by [[Rituparno Ghosh]], starring [[Konkona Sen Sharma]], [[Aparna Sen]] and [[Mithun Chakraborty]].
The film tells the story of a developing [[Adolescence|adolescent]], played by Konkona, and the sensitivity of a teenager, and also the portrayal of the mother-daughter relationship and quiet understanding within the pair.

==Plot==
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The story develops around the evolution of Titli from a girl into womanhood, through the breaking of this crush. The dense jungles of [[Dooars|Duars]] in [[North Bengal]], covered in dense morning fog, sunshine playing hide-and-seek, Buddhist monasteries, the famous [[Darjeeling Himalayan Railway|Darjeeling toy train]], interleaved with poetry and music, create the romantic ambiance underpinning this film.

Titli is a 17-year-old girl ([[Konkona Sen Sharma]]), who has a teenage crush on a [[Bollywood]] superstar Rohit Roy ([[Mithun Chakraborty]]), who is more than twice her age. Though her bedroom is filled with his posters and memorabilia, Titli's mother, Urmila ([[Aparna Sen]]), is surprised to learn that she could even marry this much older man.

Titli and Urmila are going by jeep to receive Titli's father ([[Dipankar De]]) from the airport. Along the scenic road from [[Kurseong]] to [[Siliguri]], Urmila shares a nostalgic moment when she is reminded about her teenage crush on [[Rajesh Khanna]] after hearing Titli play the song "[[Mere sapno ki rani|Meri Sapnon Ki Raani]]". The jeep is to be shared, and as it happens, their co-passenger is none other than Rohit Roy himself, who has a flight to catch from [[Siliguri]]. Titli's adolescent dreams are set on fire after she meets her crush face-to-face. Their conversation is interrupted by a halt necessitated by the coolant running out. Rohit also needs cigarettes, and Titli wants to get them and gets Rohit to agree. While she is gone, it is revealed that twenty years ago, Urmila and Rohit were lovers when Rohit was an outsider looking for roles in the [[Tollygunge]] film industry. Today, Urmila is married, but the lingering romance is built up by the hill greenery, and they both reminisce longingly. Urmila recites lines from the well-known [[Shakti Chattopadhyay]] poem ''[[Abani Bari Achho|Abani Bari Aachho]]''? (Abani, are you home?).

One of the themes of the film is "the first day of the rains". Urmila wonders if it is the first day of [[Asharh|Aasharh]] - the month heralding the [[monsoon]]s in the [[Bengali calendar]], a month rendered romantic in [[Kalidasa]]’s epic verse, [[Meghadutam]]. Rohit feels a droplet of rain on his watch. The foggy romantic mood heightens as Urmila sings a [[Rabindrasangeet]] and recites a [[Rabindranath Tagore|Tagore]] poem. By now, unbeknownst to the old lovers, Titli has returned, and she overhears the conversation and learns of their relationship. Her own romance is shattered, and [[John Lennon]]’s "[[Strawberry Fields Forever]]" builds up the mood of desolation. Soon they reach the airport where they meet Titli's father, an avid reader of [[Harry Potter]] novels and a book of jokes by [[Khushwant Singh]] (a sign of his open-minded mentality). Unknown to the fact that Rohit was the former lover of his wife, he becomes overjoyed after meeting him and also encourages his wife and daughter to keep in contact with Rohit. On the way home, Titli is on the verge of tears as she grapples with the fact that her own mother has become her immediate rival. She has always been very close to her mother, and the tension mounts as she does not know how to deal with this pain. Eventually, Titli cannot suppress her curiosity about whether her mother still loves Rohit. In the end, when Rohit writes a letter to Urmila about his engagement to another woman, she gets her answer.

The film is very stylishly made, even the end story coinciding with the announcement on a magazine cover - "Bangali Babur Biye" (Bengali gentleman gets married).

==Cast==
*[[Mithun Chakraborty]] as Rana "Rohit" Roy, a fictional version of himself<ref>{{cite web | url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/bengali/movies/photo-features/mithun-chakraborty-5-memorable-art-house-bengali-films-of-the-legendary-actor/titli-2002/photostory/64880599.cms | title='Titli' (2002) - Mithun Chakraborty: 5 memorable art-house Bengali films of the legendary actor | website=[[The Times of India]] }}</ref>
*[[Aparna Sen]] as Urmila Chatterjee
*[[Konkona Sen Sharma]] as Tilottama "Titli" Chatterjee
*[[Deepankar De]] as Urmila's husband

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
*{{IMDb title|0356129}}

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[[Category:2002 drama films]]
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[[Category:Bengali-language Indian films]]
[[Category:Films directed by Rituparno Ghosh]]
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